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The suspended federal budget talks have reached at least one conclusion. Both sides will base their offers on assumptions about future economic trends as projected by the Congressional Budget Office. The director of the CBO, June O'Neill, came in as a Republican appointee, but NPR's Peter Kenyon says she has maintained the office's reputation for non-partisan forecasts.

about his attempt to see a mine-shaft reportedly used by the Bosnian Serbs to hide the bodies of massacre victims.

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conference of 1996. The President fielded numerous questions about the budget impasse with Congress and about allegations regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton's roles in Whitewater and in the White House travel office. The President also defended his decision to visit U.S. troops stationed in Bosnia.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

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SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

NPR's John Burnett reports that while most prisons across the country are trying to make life more difficult for prisoners (cutting back funding for basketball courts, initiating chain gangs, etc.), in Texas, which has the nation's largest prison population, prisoners are being given more access to one perk: the telephone. But Burnett says from the prison perspective, there's a business incentive for the move.

Last night, President Clinton produced his own balanced budget lan, which includes a smaller tax cut and more money for Medicare and Medicaid han the Republican plan. NPR's John Greenberg reports.

Daniel talks with James Tenser of Brand Marketing Magazine about a decision by Proctor and Gamble to test market the phasing out of coupons. Tenser says many companies now realize that coupons cost more than they actually bring in.